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      <description>My Action Research Project</description>
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I
plan to study whether or not grading homework plays a role in student achievement
because I want to find out if not grading homework will increase performance to
show the relationship between grading and achievement so that I may better
understand how I should weigh homework in a student’s overall grade.</title>
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         <title>Should Homework be Graded?</title>
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         <title>What is the Value of Homework? Should it be Graded?</title>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 14:59:11 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Rick Wormeli: How Much Should Homework Count?</title>
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         <title>How one family won the battle to ban homework</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 15:46:32 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Educators question significance of grades for homework</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 15:48:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Review: A REPAIR KIT FOR GRADING by Ken O’Connor</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 15:50:25 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Value of Homework: Is Homework an Important Tool for Learning in the Classroom?</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 15:51:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Teaching Time Savers:Is Homework Grading on Your Nerves?</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 16:03:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>NCTM=Homework: What Research Says</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <title>Homework: New Research Suggests It May Be an Unnecessary Evil</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 16:07:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Key Lessons: What Research Says About the Value of Homework</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ameerman/ameermanproject/wish/12730230</link>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-08 16:09:05 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Grading vs, Checking Homework</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ameerman/ameermanproject/wish/13145055</link>
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         <enclosure url="http://www.ascd.org/conferences/Fall_Conference_--_Teaching_$_Learning/Conference_Daily/vatterott.aspx" />
         <pubDate>2013-09-15 19:24:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-15 19:28:38 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title></title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>
“Learning
is not a spectator sport.&nbsp; Research has
demonstrated that students learn more if they are actively engaged with the
material they are studying”&nbsp; (Starke,
2007).&nbsp; 
<p>Starke,
D. (2007). <i>Active learning</i>. Retrieved
September 15, 2013, from &nbsp; <a href="http://www.texascollaborative.org/activelearning.htm#section1">http://www.texascollaborative.org/activelearning.htm#section1</a></p>
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         <title></title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>“Especially
in mathematics due to the hierarchical nature of the subject, mastery in basic
skills facilitates the attainment of higher order conceptual understanding
(Siadat, Musial &amp; Sagher, 2008, p.350).&nbsp;
</p>
<div>
<p>Siadat,
V., Musial, P., &amp; Sagher, Y. (2008). <i>Keystone
method: A learning paradigm in &nbsp; mathematics</i>.
<i>Primus: problems, resources and issues in
mathematics &nbsp; undergraduate studies</i>,
18(4), 337-348.</p>
<br></div>]]></description>
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         <title>History of Homework</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-15 23:29:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Literature Review</title>
         <author>ameerman</author>
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         <pubDate>2013-09-20 22:52:31 UTC</pubDate>
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